Posted by GMAN on 01/27/06 07:58

In article <cqKdnRfJYoDIGkTeRVn-hA@comcast.com>, "Irulan" <lrulan@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>"Alf. van der Weg" <a.vdw@kamphuis.net> wrote in message
>news:drbvaq012q9@news2.newsguy.com...
>> I'm trying to copy my old VHS tapes to DVDs, but a lot of them give bad
>> copies.
>>
>> I bought a Toshiba DR-4 DVD recorder, maybe it's just not good enough. But
>> some of the tapes copy pretty well and some have really crappy pictures
>> with flickering and bad color.
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong or do I need a better recorder, or what?
>
>It all depends on how good the quality of your VHS tapes are. You know, crap
>in, crap out. If the tapes themselves are bad quality putting them on disc
>will not improve them at all.
>
>
He is copying macrovision protected tapes into his dvd recorder.

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